11-letter words containing o, s, a, t, u
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
- husk-tomato — ground-cherry
- hypothallus — a layer of hyphae rimming the thallus of certain lichens.
- ichthyosaur — any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet (1.2 to 12 meters) in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
- illustrator — an artist who makes illustrations: an illustrator of children's books.
- impostumate — affected by an abscess
- imputations — Plural form of imputation.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- insinuation — an indirect or covert suggestion or hint, especially of a derogatory nature: She made nasty insinuations about her rivals.
- insinuatory — Insinuative.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- insulations — Plural form of insulation.
- insultation — insult.
- intra muros — within the walls, as of a city.
- intrafusion — The act of pouring into a vessel.
- intravenous — within a vein.
- inundations — Plural form of inundation.
- inusitation — (archaic) Lack of use; disuse.
- iteroparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit more than once (usually many times) before dying
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
- journalists — Plural form of journalist.
- jumpstation — A site on the World Wide Web containing a collection of hypertext links, usually to pages on a particular topic.
- justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- juxtaposing — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk
- langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leucoplasts — Plural form of leucoplast.
- ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- litigatious — (rare) litigious.
- locust bean — carob.
- lotus sutra — a central scripture of Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizing that anyone can attain enlightenment
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lucio costa — Lúcio [loo-syoo] /ˈlu syu/ (Show IPA), 1902–98, Brazilian architect, chief designer of Brasilia.
- lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- masturbator — to engage in masturbation.